Alternatives to HostsXpert for all platforms with any license

HostsMan

HostsMan is a freeware hosts file manager and editor. Built-in hosts file updater Enable/Disable hosts file Built-in hosts editor Scan hosts for errors, duplicates...

Free Windows
No features added Add a feature

36 Like
BlueLife Hosts Editor

BlueLife Hosts Editor is a portable freeware hosts-file editor and allows you to easily add/delete, block, and update domain names to your hosts file.

Free Windows
No features added Add a feature

11 Like
PeerGuardian

PeerGuardian is a privacy oriented firewall application. It blocks connections to and from hosts specified in huge blocklists (thousands or millions of IP ranges). Its...

Free Open Source Mac Windows Linux
Anonymity Peer-To-Peer Privacy Protection Add a feature

29 Like
- Discontinued Linux version seems to be still developed: last version, 2.3.1, was released in November 2015. Windows and Mac version are no longer developed and outdated: useless for Mac due to the evolution from IPW to PF internal firewall structure from 10.10 Yosemite on; for Windows PeerBlock, a continuation of PeerGuardian's development, is recommended by the developer.
Gas Mask

Gas Mask is simple hosts file manager for Mac OS X. It allows editing of host files and switching between them.

Free Open Source Mac
Automatic host source updates 5min-7days Creating combined hosts file Quick switch between different host files Add a feature

4 Like
BeeThink IP Blocker

BeeThink IP Blocker is a Windows IP Blocking program which controls one computer interacts with other computers over the network. It can be successfully used on Windows...

Commercial Windows
No features added Add a feature

3 Like
Hosts Editor

Hosts Editor is small application for editing windows Hosts file. Now you can easily add new nodes, without manual editing.

Free Open Source Windows
Portable Add a feature

3 Like
HostsFileEditor

Hosts File Editor makes it easy to change your hosts file as well as archive multiple versions for easy retrieval.

Free Open Source Windows
No features added Add a feature

1 Like
Hosts.prefpane

Hosts add a preference pane to your system preferences which lets you toggle your host file entries on and off, as well as add and remove them.

Free Open Source Mac
No features added Add a feature

1 Like
iplist

iplist is a Linux application for blocking connections to and from a specified range of hosts using the netfilter netlink-queue library. iplist is an open source IP...

Free Open Source Linux
Peer-To-Peer Add a feature

6 Like
- Discontinued The project is no longer developed. Last version, 0.29, released in October 2010, can be still downloaded from the official website.
SwitchHosts!

SwitchHosts! is an App for hosts management & switching. It is a free and open source software.

Free Open Source Mac Linux
No features added Add a feature

3 Like
HostAdmin

Saving your time when you switch domain-IP mapping (Hosts file) between different environment. Awesome host file editor!.

Free Mac Windows Linux Chrome Firefox
No features added Add a feature

0 Like